1592

"As touching corporations, that they were invisible, immortal and that they had no soul, therefor no supoena lieth against them, because they have no conscience or soul."

- Queen Elizabeth I's Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir Roger Manwood, one of the first to realize that corporations are soulless.

In the year AD 1592...

Japanese hegemon Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea gets underway, as 70,000 Japanese troops led by Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukinaga land in Pusan and race northward, capturing city after city from the ill-prepared Korean troops, including Seoul and Pyongyang. Kato Kiyomasa even makes it all the way to Manchuria, where he besieges a Jurchen fortress. But the tide begins to turn toward the end of the year as the Korean navy, using the famous "turtle ships" and led by legendary admiral Yi Sun-sin, wins naval battle after naval battle and cuts of Japanese supply lines.

The wars in the Netherlands and France continue. When the Duke of Parma is recalled back to Holland to deal with the fiesty Dutch, would-be French king Henry IV is once again free to attack Catholic strongholds. So Spanish king Philip II is once again forced to order Parma back into Franch to relieve Henry's siege of Rouen, which he successfully does. But the Duke of Parma dies on his way back to Holland, and Philip thus loses his best general.